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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Aug. 11. 1855. 



of -whatever kind were his disposition or turn of mind, 

 and of whatever degree the capacity of it, so that he was 

 •but able to paj' largely for liis teaching."] 



Lord Carberry. — Can any of your readers 

 furnish any information respecting the Lord 

 ■Carberry who was appointed Lord President of 

 the Principality of Wales by Charles IL ? Or 

 any history of his family ? He is not in the Ex- 

 tinct Peerage. K. B. 



[Our correspondent should have referred to the family 

 name (Vaughan) in Burke's Dictionary of the Peerages, 

 p. 630., edit. 1831, where he will find an account of this 

 family. Consult also The Peerage of England, vol. ii. 

 ,p. 284., edit. 1714. John Vaughan, Esq., of Golden 

 Grove, in Carmartlienshire, was created an Irish peer by 

 the title of Lord Vaughan of Molingar, 18 James I., and 

 Earl of Carberry, 1628. His son Kichard, second Earl of 

 Carlerry, was made an English peer by the title of Lord 

 Vaughan of Emlyn, 19 Charles I. His son John, third 

 Earl of Carberry, and second Lord Vaughan of Emlyn, 

 •was Governor of Jamaica, but dying January, 1712-13, 

 •without issue male, the honour expired.] 



*'w4 Short Catechism.^'' — Can you inform me 

 the name of the author of a diminutive black-letter 

 volume with the following title : 



"A Short Catechisme for Housholders, whereunto are 

 adioyned many necessory praiers. First made by Master 

 .... and augmented by W. Dering. Psalme xxxiv. 11. : 

 Come ye Children hearken unto mee, I will teach ye the 

 feare of the Lord. Printed by W. Jaggard, dwelling in 

 Barbican." 



The title-page having been exposed to damp, 

 the author's name is quite illegible. There are 

 also four leaves missing from the body of the 

 •work, namely signature F. 9, 10., and G. 4, 5., the 

 contents of which he would be happy to obtain, 

 could he be favoured with the sight of a copy of 

 the book, and be permitted to transcribe them. 



C. K. 



Greenwich. 



[The compiler of this Catechism was John Stockwood, 

 jschoolmaster at Tunbridge. A copy of it, " newlie cor- 

 rected and abridged," 1583, is in the British Museum, 

 and in the Lambeth Library. We cannot find Jaggard's 

 edition in any public library.] 



Lord MahorCs " History y — In vol. vii. c. lxii. 

 p. 53. (ed. 1854) is this passage: 



" Thus until midsummer 1780, the American army in 

 the central states remained almost wholly at gaze." 



What is the meaning of the phrase at gaze ? 



In the same volume, chapter lxv. (p. 16L), we 

 read : 



"He sftewedT with bitter jealousy the popular gratitude 

 ■which Gratton had earned." 



Is not shewed a misprint for viewed ? 



Bar-Point. 



Philadelphia. 



[" At gaze " is a term used in stag-hunting. When 

 the stag first hears the hounds, he looks around n all 

 directions, and is said to be "at gaze," that is, in doubt 

 or apprehension of an unseen danger. In heraldry, the 



IJo. 302.] 



hart, stag, buck or hind, when borne in coat armour full- 

 faced, is said to be " at gaze."] 



3l^0j)lt£^. 



" CATAMUM TEMPERAHE." 

 (Vol. X., p. 494.) 



Im tempra di penna is the " mending of a pen," 

 as is proved by Dante's line, — 



" Ma poco dura alia sua penna tempra." 



The temperiHo temperato'io is a knife to mend 

 pens. But the sense of the words tempra, tem- 

 peratura, temperamento, widely differs from the 

 French, tailler une plume ; the German, eine 

 Feder schneiden; or the English, mending a pen. 

 We Frenchmen hew our pens (feather quills at 

 least) ; nous Ics taillons, as masons do stones ; Ger- 

 mans lop them off (schneiden) ; Englishmen put 

 them to rights, mend, or correct them, whenever 

 there is something amiss, like good physicians, 

 surgeons, or politicians, Italians, on the con- 

 trary, in their artist-like way, wish to see their 

 pens well tempered, well adjusted, well regulated, 

 in harmony with the paper and the ink, ready to 

 give good rhythm and measure, and to act quickly, 

 resolutely, gracefully, let them be goose-quills, 

 swan-quills, eyder-quills, peacock or eagle-quillsy 

 or no quills at all. Even now we temper our steel 

 pens, dipping them into a vase filled with small 

 leaden balls, to wash the dirt off. 



" Quindi di tasea tragge il temperino," says 

 Fortiquerra, in his Ricciardetto, "He draws his 

 penknife out of his pocket." To Italians, as we 

 said, the penknife is not only a knife, but the mo- 

 derator, the regulator, the harmoniser and organ- 

 iser of the pens. " Temperare la cetera d' alcuno" 

 signifies to chime in with a person, to humour him. 

 " Ti prego che tu temper! la lira," says Ludovico 

 Pulci (Morgante Maggiore), " Tune the lyre, I 

 pray." A watchmaker who winds up a watch or 

 a clock, who puts it to rights, is said in Italian to 

 accord, to temper the clock. " Temperava 1' oriuolo 

 di palagio;" "He regulated the clock of the pa- 

 lace " (Stor. Fiorent.). 



Such is the sense of the calamum temperare of 

 the Venerable Bede, — an expression evidently 

 mediaeval, borrowed by the more modern Italians, 

 or rather transmitted to them by natural de- 

 scent. Any pen which does not fulfil its office re- 

 gularly, which does not " keep measure " (" ne va 

 pas en mesure"), is an ill-tempered pen. " Quando . 

 uno non balla, o non canta, o non suona a tempo^ 

 cioe non osserva la battuta, noi diciamo che non 

 va a tempo" (Vasari). Mixing up colours, con- 

 solidating and organising various elements, and 

 correcting them by each other, is to temper them. 

 "Con tal industria end arte temperato" says Berni ; 



